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Zechariah 8:3
The LORD says this:“ I will return to Zion and live in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the Faithful City; the mountain of the LORD of Armies will be called the Holy Mountain.”
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Joel 3:17
Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, and foreigners will never overrun it again.
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Psalms 31:1
LORD, I seek refuge in you; let me never be disgraced. Save me by your righteousness.
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Daniel 9:20
While I was speaking, praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my petition before the LORD my God concerning the holy mountain of my God—
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Lamentations 2:15-16
All who pass by scornfully clap their hands at you. They hiss and shake their heads at Daughter Jerusalem: Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying,“ We have swallowed her up. This is the day we have waited for! We have lived to see it.”
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Psalms 87:1-3
The city he founded is on the holy mountains.The LORD loves Zion’s city gates more than all the dwellings of Jacob.Glorious things are said about you, city of God. Selah
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Psalms 71:2
In your justice, rescue and deliver me; listen closely to me and save me.
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Exodus 20:5
Do not bow in worship to them, and do not serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ iniquity on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me,
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Psalms 79:4
We have become an object of reproach to our neighbors, a source of mockery and ridicule to those around us.
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Leviticus 26:39-40
Those who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away because of their iniquity; they will also waste away because of their ancestors’ iniquities along with theirs.“ But when they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their ancestors— their unfaithfulness that they practiced against me, and how they acted with hostility toward me,
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Luke 11:47-51
“ Woe to you! You build tombs for the prophets, and your fathers killed them.Therefore, you are witnesses that you approve the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their monuments.Because of this, the wisdom of God said,‘ I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,’so that this generation may be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world—from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.“ Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held responsible.
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Jeremiah 24:9
I will make them an object of horror and a disaster to all the kingdoms of the earth, an example for disgrace, scorn, ridicule, and cursing, wherever I have banished them.
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1John 1:9
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Jeremiah 32:32
because of all the evil the Israelites and Judeans have done to anger me— they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets, the men of Judah, and the residents of Jerusalem.
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Jeremiah 29:18
I will pursue them with sword, famine, and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth— a curse and a desolation, an object of scorn and a disgrace among all the nations where I have banished them.
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1 Samuel 2 7
The LORD brings poverty and gives wealth; he humbles and he exalts.
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2 Thessalonians 1 6
since it is just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you
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1 Kings 9 7-1 Kings 9 9
I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them, and I will reject the temple I have sanctified for my name. Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.Though this temple is now exalted, everyone who passes by will be appalled and will scoff. They will say,“ Why did the LORD do this to this land and this temple?”Then they will say,“ Because they abandoned the LORD their God who brought their ancestors out of the land of Egypt. They held on to other gods and bowed in worship to them and served them. Because of this, the LORD brought all this ruin on them.”
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Lamentations 1:8-9
Jerusalem has sinned grievously; therefore, she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness. She herself groans and turns away.Her uncleanness stains her skirts. She never considered her end. Her downfall was astonishing; there was no one to comfort her. LORD, look on my affliction, for the enemy boasts.
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Psalms 41:13
Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and amen.
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Psalms 106:6-48
Both we and our ancestors have sinned; we have done wrong and have acted wickedly.Our ancestors in Egypt did not grasp the significance of your wondrous works or remember your many acts of faithful love; instead, they rebelled by the sea— the Red Sea.Yet he saved them for his name’s sake, to make his power known.He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; he led them through the depths as through a desert.He saved them from the power of the adversary; he redeemed them from the power of the enemy.Water covered their foes; not one of them remained.Then they believed his promises and sang his praise.They soon forgot his works and would not wait for his counsel.They were seized with craving in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.He gave them what they asked for, but sent a wasting disease among them.In the camp they were envious of Moses and of Aaron, the LORD’s holy one.The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.Fire blazed throughout their assembly; flames consumed the wicked.At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped the cast metal image.They exchanged their glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,wondrous works in the land of Ham, awe-inspiring acts at the Red Sea.So he said he would have destroyed them— if Moses his chosen one had not stood before him in the breach to turn his wrath away from destroying them.They despised the pleasant land and did not believe his promise.They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the LORD.So he raised his hand against them with an oath that he would make them fall in the desertand would disperse their descendants among the nations, scattering them throughout the lands.They aligned themselves with Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.They angered the LORD with their deeds, and a plague broke out against them.But Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was stopped.It was credited to him as righteousness throughout all generations to come.They angered the LORD at the Waters of Meribah, and Moses suffered because of them,for they embittered his spirit, and he spoke rashly with his lips.They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded thembut mingled with the nations and adopted their ways.They served their idols, which became a snare to them.They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.They shed innocent blood— the blood of their sons and daughters whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; so the land became polluted with blood.They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against his people, and he abhorred his own inheritance.He handed them over to the nations; those who hated them ruled over them.Their enemies oppressed them, and they were subdued under their power.He rescued them many times, but they continued to rebel deliberately and were beaten down by their iniquity.When he heard their cry, he took note of their distress,remembered his covenant with them, and relented according to the abundance of his faithful love.He caused them to be pitied before all their captors.Save us, LORD our God, and gather us from the nations, so that we may give thanks to your holy name and rejoice in your praise.Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say,“ Amen!” Hallelujah!
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Psalms 143:1
LORD, hear my prayer. In your faithfulness listen to my plea, and in your righteousness answer me.
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Nehemiah 9:8
You found his heart faithful in your sight, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites, and Girgashites— to give it to his descendants. You have fulfilled your promise, for you are righteous.
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Ezekiel 5:14
“ I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by.
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Isaiah 64:9-11
LORD, do not be terribly angry or remember our iniquity forever. Please look— all of us are your people!Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.Our holy and beautiful temple, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned down, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.
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Micah 6:4-5
Indeed, I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from that place of slavery. I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam ahead of you.My people, remember what King Balak of Moab proposed, what Balaam son of Beor answered him, and what happened from the Acacia Grove to Gilgal so that you may acknowledge the LORD’s righteous acts.
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Matthew 23:31-32
So you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.Fill up, then, the measure of your ancestors’ sins!